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Tuesday Tidings - 256 - Abandoned Home Nag · on 01/14/2025 18:00 2124
Happy Tuesday!

This week, we've tackled something that we hope will improve part of the housing demand in the game. As part of their normal behavior, homes "check in" roughly every 30 days to ensure the account owner is still Premium and to handle the unhousing processes if not. We've tied into these mechanics to start tracking homes that haven't been visited in the past year (365 days) by their owning character.

If such a home is found, it now gets tracked and an attempt will be made to notify the account owner once per day that they have a home attached to their account that isn't being visited/used. These reminders can be stopped by simply visiting the home with the owning character! Alternatively, it also provides messaging about giving up the home either via the transfer or deed process with references to the relevant HOME HELP information. Because it can never be stressed enough, READ the HOME HELP documentation carefully for deeds -- deeds expire, and you can lose your stuff!

A lot of homes have been claimed all over the game and forgotten about. They aren't being used for storage or anything at all -- some still have the original furniture and nothing else! If even a fraction of these were given up for people actually wanting a home to use, it would be a huge shift. Without the tracking this project provides, however, we don't have good numbers on just how many of these homes are out there. This helps us, and hopefully will help the housing market in game as well over time! We'll still add more housing in the future, don't fret there!

This is live everywhere. We'll be poking some homes to check in early today just to make sure the process is working, so you may see a message! If you notice anything quirky, please let us know!

Huge thanks to Zadraes for the idea and the QC!

Cheers,

BrewMaster Paklin

This message was originally posted in Discussions with DragonRealms Staff and Players / Game Master and Official Announcements, by DR-PAKLIN on the play.net forums.